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The patient had dementia and could no longer swallow. The intricate workings of the muscles of her throat were failing, and she was no longer able to move food or liquids reliably into her stomach. Instead, they too frequently ended up in her lungs, and she drowned a little more with …
Published: Jul 16, 2013 | Updated: Jul 17, 2013
By Chika Anekwe MD , Contributing Writer, MedPage Today
Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN, Nurse Planner
Food and the Dying Patient By: Jessica Nutik Zitter, M.D. / The New York Times
October 27, 2014
The patient had dementia and could no longer swallow. The intricate workings of the muscles of her throat were failing, and she was no longer able to move food or liquids reliably into her stomach. Instead, they too frequently ended up in her lungs, and she drowned a little more with …
‘Death Talk’ Difficult on Both Ends of Stethoscope
October 27, 2014
Published: Jul 16, 2013 | Updated: Jul 17, 2013
By Chika Anekwe MD , Contributing Writer, MedPage Today
Reviewed by Robert Jasmer, MD; Associate Clinical Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco and Dorothy Caputo, MA, BSN, RN, Nurse Planner
